New Insights into Western Marxism

Doing research on Western is difficult because the researchers have to read original works written in foreign languages to understand the ideas of western scholars.It is even more difficult to evaluate their works by referring to appropriate criteria and make sound judgments.To study Marxism in the west we need a strong desire to explore into the theories and find solutions to major theoretical and practical issues.The author,for example,has undergone changes in views towards Western in the process of research concerning the following ideas: the radical related to the so-called left-wing,the scholastic divorced from reality,'philosophic' confined to the fields of philosophy and aesthetics,reconciled and compromised that combines modern western thoughts with Marxism,critical that attempts to destroy and reject,and Marxism in developed capitalist society that is suitable only for modern industrial society.